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Best iPad Productivity Apps

When I reviewed Fantastical on the iPhone, I ended up finding my new, permanent iPhone calendar solution. Now, finally, the same app has come out for iPad, and I have a new permanent solution for that device, too. Fantastical 2 for iPad is every inch as good as its iPhone counterpart, though it achieves that…(Read the full article)

“It’s about time!” shouted the collective voice of enterprise IT experts and undergraduate college students on Thursday as Microsoft finally, FINALLY released Office for iPad. Well, not all of Office. Instead, it’s the three most commonly used components: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. And they didn’t cut corners, either — these are beautiful, well thought out,…(Read the full article)

Might as well come right out and say it—we’re nowhere near the first to review Real Racing 3, and by now you’ve heard time and again about how fantastic this game looks and how the gameplay is nearly-flawless… Well, we’ve finally played through Real Racing 3 and can say that it’s all true—it really does…(Read the full article)

When the Mailbox app hit the App Store earlier this Spring, the tech blogs exploded with joy. Here was mail done cleanly, intuitively, sleekly, better. Of course, there was the two-week wait initially to actually use the app, as the Mailbox team only slowly rolled out their server load. That situation has changed recently. Mailbox team…(Read the full article)

Need a convenient, ready-made, customizable database for your iPad to track everything from movies to recipes to car maintenance? Bento 4 wants to be you go-to app. And in large part, it succeeds. Bento 4 is a great app for personal and home use, though it has some limitations I confess that I have never…(Read the full article)

Let’s be honest, taking notes probably wasn’t one of the possible uses that got you most excited about getting that new iPad. It’s easy for productivity apps like Notability to become overshadowed by all the great gaming, photography, music, and entertainment apps that litter the App Store… But some of us are interested in taking…(Read the full article)

When I was assigned a review of iThought HD — a mind-mapping app designed to help plan out projects, papers, and processes using a visual and colorful flow-charting system — I figured there was only one way to review it: Plan out my review within the app. So I did. iThoughtsHD is an app designed…(Read the full article)

Last year, I reviewed the then-newly released Numbers for iPad. At the time, I dismissed it as “almost meaningless in the business and professional world” due to it’s incompatibility with Excel, the world leader in spreadsheets, and its poor cloud support. Well, a lot has changed about Numbers since then, and so it was time…(Read the full article)

Penultimate , from Cocoa Box Design, is the app that I have settled on for meetings in my day job. [What, you thought I wrote app reviews for a living? I wish!] Out of a field of many notetaking contenders, Penultimate was the one that did what I needed it to do. Specifically, Penultimate takes…(Read the full article)

Need an app to let you access your PC from your iPad? Been frustrated with the apps you’ve tried? Then Splashtop Desktop Remote just may be the app for you. It is easily the most usable remote desktop app I’ve seen in the App Store. On in-home WiFi, Splashtop Desktop Remote works, and works incredibly…(Read the full article)